Thomas G. 'Tom' Reynolds (born December 16, 1956) is an American

United States

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 politician who formerly served in the Wisconsin State Senate

Wisconsin State Senate

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, representing the 5th district. He is a member of the Republican Party of Wisconsin

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Reynolds was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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 and graduated from Nathan Hale High School in 1975. In addition to serving in the state senate, Reynolds is the owner of a printing business. He has five children.

Reynolds was elected to the Wisconsin Senate in 2002 after defeating incumbent Sen. Peggy Rosenzweig

Peggy Rosenzweig

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, who Reynolds claimed was too liberal, in the Republican primary that April. Before his defeat in 2006, he sat on the Committee on Housing and Financial Institutions, the Committee on Job Creation, Economic Development and Consumer Affairs, the Joint Committee

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 for Review of Administrative Rules, and chaired the Committee on Labor and Election Process Reform. He was defeated in his bid for re-election by Democrat

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 Jim Sullivan

Jim Sullivan (Wisconsin politician)

Jim Sullivan is a former Democratic legislator who served in the Wisconsin Senate, representing the 5th District from 2007 to 2011.-Political campaigns:In 2006, he defeated Senator Thomas G. Reynolds by 2 percent of the vote...

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Electoral history

• 2006 Race for Wisconsin State Senate - 5th District
  • Jim Sullivan
    Jim Sullivan (Wisconsin politician)
    Jim Sullivan is a former Democratic legislator who served in the Wisconsin Senate, representing the 5th District from 2007 to 2011.-Political campaigns:In 2006, he defeated Senator Thomas G. Reynolds by 2 percent of the vote...
    
     (D), 51%
  • Tom Reynolds (R) (inc.), 49%

• 2002 Race for Wisconsin State Senate - 5th District
  • Tom Reynolds (R), 53%
  • George L. Christenson (D), 47%

• 2002 Race for Wisconsin State Senate - 5th District Republican Primary
  • Tom Reynolds (R), 55%
  • Peggy Rosenzweig
    Peggy Rosenzweig
    Peggy A. Rosenzweig is a former member of the Wisconsin State Senate and the Wisconsin State Assembly. She served in the Wisconsin Legislature from 1983 to 2003.-Political career:...
    
     (R) (inc.), 45%

• 1998 Race for U.S. House of Representatives - 4th District
  • Jerry Kleczka
    Jerry Kleczka
    Gerald Daniel "Jerry" Kleczka , an American politician, was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1984 to 2005, representing . The district includes the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he was born....
    
     (D) (inc.), 58%
  • Tom Reynolds (R), 42%

• 1996 Race for U.S. House of Representatives - 4th District
  • Jerry Kleczka
    Jerry Kleczka
    Gerald Daniel "Jerry" Kleczka , an American politician, was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1984 to 2005, representing . The district includes the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he was born....
    
     (D) (inc.), 58%
  • Tom Reynolds (R), 42%

• 1996 Race for U.S. House of Representatives - 4th District Republican Primary
  • Tom Reynolds (R)
  • J. Mac Davis (R)

• 1994 Race for U.S. House of Representatives - 4th District
  • Jerry Kleczka
    Jerry Kleczka
    Gerald Daniel "Jerry" Kleczka , an American politician, was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1984 to 2005, representing . The district includes the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he was born....
    
     (D) (inc.), 54%
  • Tom Reynolds (R), 45%

External links

• 5th Senate District, Senator Reynolds in the Wisconsin Blue Book
  Wisconsin Blue Book
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   (2005–2006)
• Spivak, Cary and Dan Bice. "Reynolds exhibits signs of quirkiness" Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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  , September 17, 2005.
• "Salad Days: Tom Reynolds, civil unions and not-so-civilized discourse" ' Vital Source Magazine, October, 2006.
• http://www.widigest.com/html/index.html
• http://www.bootsandsabers.com